Is retirement the goal of work?

Ask Away

Vince and Jo Vitale

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Many of us will spend more than half of our waking lives working. We frequently joke about “the grind” of work and living for the weekend, but that doesn’t seem like much of a way to live. If the goal of work is retirement, then what does that say about the work in the first place? Is work a punishment for the fall? Will there be work in heaven? In this episode of Ask Away, Jo and Vince consider whether work is merely a necessary evil for those of us not fortunate enough to win the lottery, or whether we’ve set our expectations for our “working-life” far too low. Could God be inviting us to reimagine what a life of “good works” might look like? ------ We’re so glad you joined us for Ask Away. If you have a question that needs answering, we’d love to hear it. Send us an email at askawayquestion@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at ‪(321) 213-9670‬. Ask Away is hosted by Vince and Jo Vitale, and produced by Studio D Podcast Production. New episodes come out regularly, so make sure to subscribe. The best way you can support Ask Away is to leave a review. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for Ask Away, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review’ and tell us what you think. If you’d like to see videos from Vince and me, invite us to speak, or make a financial gift so that more people’s questions can be heard on Ask Away, visit Kardiaquestions.com See you next time, and remember, if you have a question, it’s worth asking.

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0:00.0	I was a skeptic who came to faith through asking hard questions.
0:04.2	I'm a long-time Christian whose faith was challenged by hard questions.
0:08.4	Whatever your story is, we all ask questions.
0:12.0	But some questions are more difficult to answer than others.
0:15.8	And some questions keep us up at night.
0:18.4	Who am I?
0:19.6	Does my life have value?
0:21.2	What determines my identity and purpose?
0:23.7	Is there a God?
0:24.9	Does he care?
0:26.0	What will happen when I die?
0:27.8	Is it even possible to know the truth?
0:29.7	We believe every question is valuable, and we receive every question as a gift.
0:35.3	So welcome to the podcast, where we invite you to Ask Away.
0:41.3	Hi everyone. Welcome back to Ask Away. I'm Joe Vitale.
0:47.8	Are you still recording? I am. Okay, keep it going. We've tried four times to start this
0:53.2	episode, guys. You don't get to see the behind the scenes, but it's just so funny. Like, once we get into it, it's all smooth. But the start is just we always cracking up over here. So yes, this is Escois. That is Joe. I'm Joe, I am Vince. We hope you're having a great summer. Back to you, Joe. That was strangely hard to do.
1:12.5	Anyway, good to be here with you all today. Yeah, I do hope you're having a great summer.
1:17.6	Our four-year-old has been dancing around in his new t-shirt today, which it has a picture of
1:22.5	fries and ketchup on it. And then it just says across the top, it's Friday.
1:28.5	Let's catch up, which he thinks is absolutely hilarious. I think it's the first time he's like understood language enough to get like a word. So he's like telling everybody about his t-shirt. But anyway. As if they don't get it. Right. Over and over. Yeah. Totally. But, you know, he's loving it. So that's fine. But it's got me thinking his t-shirt about today's topic because, you know, all of us know the phrase, don't we?
2:01.7	Thank God, it's Friday. You know, that feeling of like, finally we have made it to the weekend. I can see my friends. Let's catch up. Let's do something fun. But how often do we just spend our lives living that way? You know, just waiting for the next break from work, the next leisure activity. My brother was telling me this week about a wedding he'd
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